Willy Menzel, Trutnov

Identifier
COLLECTION.SURV.SOkA_Trutnov/2465
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1888 - 31 Dec 1948
Level of Description
Fonds
Languages
  • German
  • Czech
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

0,92 linear meters

Acquisition

Only a fraction of the records in the archival fonds of Willy Menzel, Trutnov, have been preserved. Until 1945 they were probably kept at the company's record office in Poříčí near Trutnov, from where they were transferred to the business archives of the state-owned enterprise Texlen in Trutnov at the end of the 1950s. There is no detailed information on pre-1960 records; therefore, it is not possible to determine their original scope, or how many were destroyed prior to the transfer to the business archives. The archival fonds is now in the State District Archives in Trutnov.

Scope and Content

The records in the fonds are mainly of use as sources for the company's history. There is a large set of property-related records from the period of Nazi occupation, dealing with the Gestapo's confiscation of the company's property, Aryanization and the sale of the company to Willy Menzel. In addition, there are interesting post-1945 records on the efforts made by the former owner of the company, R. Pfefferkorn, to get his property back. The events of the autumn of 1938 are reflected in other records, including a request for the return of goods taken away from Trutnov shortly before the Nazi seizure of the Czechoslovak borderlands, the pursuit of this claim against the Czechoslovak Republic, and the recovery of paid-for goods that had been supplied to the Ministry of National Defence.

System of Arrangement

The fonds is arranged as follows: A) Company management and administration, B) Employees, C) Accounting and reporting, D) Technical documents, E) Pictorial documents, F) Records relating to the company owners, G) Samplers.

Finding Aids

  • SMUTNÝ B., Willy Menzel, Trutnov 1888-1948. Inventář, 1985, 22 s., ev. č. 534.

Process Info

  • This archival description was created by the Jewish Museum in Prague in the framework of the cooperation between EHRI and the Yerusha project.

Places

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